{"id":79393,"date":"2016-08-06T11:02:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T11:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=79393"},"modified":"2016-08-06T11:02:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T11:02:36","slug":"narendra-modi-to-lay-foundation-of-rs-10600-crore-telangana-power-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/narendra-modi-to-lay-foundation-of-rs-10600-crore-telangana-power-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Narendra Modi to lay foundation of Rs 10,600 crore Telangana power project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone for the first phase of NTPC&#8217;s Telangana Super Thermal Power Project (STPP) tomorrow. <\/p>\n<p>NTPC will establish the project in two phases, 1600 MW (2x800MW) in Phase-I and 2400 MW (3&#215;800 MW) in Phase-II, it said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>The project is being set up in the available land in the premises of NTPC&#8217;s existing Ramagundam station. An investment approval of Rs 10598.98 crore has been accorded for the project. <\/p>\n<p>The AP Reorganisation Act 2014 mandates that NTPC shall establish a 4000MW power facility for the newly carved-out state of Telangana. <\/p>\n<p>Ministry of Coal last year allotted Mandakini-B coal mine in Odisha to NTPC for the 4000 MW Telangana STPP. As an interim arrangement till the development of this mine, tapering coal linkage for Telangana Phase-I (2X800 MW) shall be provided from WCL, the statement added. <\/p>\n<p>Governor of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh E S L Narasimhan, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, Union Minister of State Power, Coal, New &#038; Renewable energy and Mines, Piyush Goyal and Union Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Bandaru Dattatreya are among those expected to be present on the occasion tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone for the first phase of NTPC&#8217;s Telangana Super Thermal Power Project (STPP) tomorrow. NTPC will establish the project in two phases, 1600 MW (2x800MW) in Phase-I and 2400 MW (3&#215;800 MW) in Phase-II, it said in a statement. The project is being set up in the available land in the premises of NTPC&#8217;s existing Ramagundam station. An investment approval of Rs 10598.98 crore has been accorded for the project. The AP Reorganisation Act 2014 mandates that NTPC shall establish a 4000MW power facility for the newly carved-out state of Telangana. Ministry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-power"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}